Malaysia Airlines Jet Goes Missing With 239 on Board

Malaysia Airlines said Saturday that it lost contact with one of its planes carrying 239 people to China.

Flight 370 was on its way to Beijing when contact was lost, two hours into the flight early Saturday, the airline said in a statement. The Boeing 777-200ER departed from Kuala Lumpur 12:41 a.m. local time with 227 passengers and 12 crew members and was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., it said.